Cape Canaveral Space Force Museum

[Blackstar]

The Cape Canaveral Space Force Museum is currently closed due to the government shutdown. However, the museum volunteers have put out a newsletter about the museum and historical topics associated with Cape space operations.

I have attached the newsletter here. The museum has also produced other regular newsletters, and I'll try to find them and post them in this thread.

[Jim]

https://ccspacemuseum.org/newsletter-archive/

[AS-503]

I had a great experience last time visiting there.
The museum guide/employee regaled us with a story about "Snark infested waters" while going over the SM-62 Snark missile and its failures from the range to the water.

[Blackstar]

[Blackstar]

Now that they may have identified it, hopefully they can get some money to save it. I saw it a couple of years ago and it looked bad. I had my doubts that they could even move it without destroying it. But maybe they can find a way to at least get it indoors and stop the corrosion.

I will be out at the Cape in a few weeks and I'll ask about this.

[Blackstar]

[Blackstar]

[mike robel]

I have not been to Atlanta in a very long time.  I suppose the Titan I along I-75 has also decayed and is gone?

[Blackstar]

Different museum. But lots of pictures in this article.

https://thespacereview.com/article/5121/1

[ChrisC]

I have not been to Atlanta in a very long time.  I suppose the Titan I along I-75 has also decayed and is gone?

You're probably talking about the Titan in Cordele GA, 2-3 hours south of Atlanta.  It's still there as far as I know, but I haven't laid my own eyes on it in a year or two.  I used to stop at the exit every time since the Electrify America EV charging site was there, but that's literally the worst EA site ever and as soon as there was competition I stopped charging there, zipping right past that exit.  But the rocket is visible from the highway (it's literally 100-200 feet west of the highway, at the southbound offramp) and I usually try to spot it as I fly past.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/titan-i-missile

(Hey Blackstar, thank you for the screenshots, but can you also post the LINKS to those posts by "James W. Draper"?  Looks like they're coming from LinkedIn?  There's a way to get a link/URL to the post -- look around perhaps in the little dots in the corner of the post.)

[Blackstar]

(Hey Blackstar, thank you for the screenshots, but can you also post the LINKS to those posts by "James W. Draper"?  Looks like they're coming from LinkedIn?  There's a way to get a link/URL to the post -- look around perhaps in the little dots in the corner of the post.)

Those were on Twitter. He posted other stuff on LinkedIn, but LinkedIn is a pain to extract photos from. And you also have to be a member of both of those places to access them.

[StraumliBlight]

(Hey Blackstar, thank you for the screenshots, but can you also post the LINKS to those posts by "James W. Draper"?  Looks like they're coming from LinkedIn?  There's a way to get a link/URL to the post -- look around perhaps in the little dots in the corner of the post.)

Those were on Twitter. He posted other stuff on LinkedIn, but LinkedIn is a pain to extract photos from. And you also have to be a member of both of those places to access them.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/james-w-draper_museums-artifacts-missiles-activity-7405997949165408256-PdVx

Post can be viewed without signing in.

[ChrisC]

Those were on Twitter. He posted other stuff on LinkedIn, but LinkedIn is a pain to extract photos from. And you also have to be a member of both of those places to access them.

Ditto for Twitter ... not only do you NOT have to be a member to view, but if you just post the URL/link here, the NSF forum software automatically embeds it!  And now you know how all of us been posting those fancy Twitter embeds   All we do is post the URL to the post, with one twist: you have to replace "x.com" with "twitter.com", and then the NSF embedder does its thing.  I've done this below with one of the tweets you posted above -- you see all sorts of content below, but all I did was post the twitter.com URL!  Blame Elon.

If you are trying to look at an X.com post, they do indeed make it hard to do without an account (again blame Elon, as all this broke shortly after he stepped in).  But it is possible, with what are called "Nitter" repeaters.  You take the "x.com" and replace it with "twiiit.com" (that's with three letter i's), and it will automatically forward you to the nitter instance that's currently working.  Weird the first time you do it, and then soon it becomes natural.  No question that it's a pain, but at least you don't have to get a Twitter account.

Yes I suddenly had to become an expert in this in Summer 2023 when the big guy smashed up Twitter.  It's all a great big pain, especially the first time you deal with it, but it does work.  And of course yes there is valuable discourse going on in Twitter ...

Twitter embed example follows.

https://twitter.com/James_W_Draper/status/2000236077999857748

[Proponent]

I have not been to Atlanta in a very long time.  I suppose the Titan I along I-75 has also decayed and is gone?

You're probably talking about the Titan in Cordele GA, 2-3 hours south of Atlanta.  It's still there as far as I know, but I haven't laid my own eyes on it in a year or two.

Google Earth has a view of it dated 26 February of this year.

[Blackstar]

[catdlr]

Do they have a vending machine?

[Blackstar]

I'm going to be there in a few weeks. I am curious to learn how they replicated the sandwich:

[Blackstar]

Part 2 on the Huntsville museum is now online. Lots and lots of photographs:

https://thespacereview.com/article/5123/1

[catdlr]

Moderator:

Trimming these off subject post back to my response to Blackstar,

https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=63828.msg2745883#msg2745883

Since it has gone off-topic. Hope everyone had their fun.


Update: Dec 24: Trim completed.  Merry Christmas.